{"id":3133,"date":"2017-10-12T11:32:54","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T15:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chs\/?p=3133"},"modified":"2017-10-12T11:32:54","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T15:32:54","slug":"uri-college-of-health-sciences-professor-wins-national-award-in-gerontology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chs\/2017\/10\/12\/uri-college-of-health-sciences-professor-wins-national-award-in-gerontology\/","title":{"rendered":"URI College of Health Sciences professor wins national award in gerontology"},"content":{"rendered":"

Phillip Clark honored for mentorship in, promotion of geriatric education<\/h4>\n
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Phillip Clark<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A local expert on gerontology at the University of Rhode Island has been named the recipient of a prestigious award from a national association on aging.<\/p>\n

Phillip Clark, professor of Human Development and Family Studies, and director of both the gerontology program and the Rhode Island Geriatric Education Center at URI, has been awarded the 2018 Hiram J. Friedsam Mentorship Award from the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education (AGHE). The award recognizes excellence in mentorship to students, faculty or administrators working in geriatric education.<\/p>\n

Clark specializes in aging and disability, health promotion with older adults, and ethical issues in geriatric care. A faculty member at URI since 1981, he is also co-author of \u201cHealth Care Teamwork: Interprofessional Practice and Education,\u201d and his work on older adults has been published in such journals as \u201cThe Gerontologist,\u201d the \u201cCanadian Journal on Aging,\u201d \u201cAgeing and Society,\u201d \u201cEducational Gerontology,\u201d \u201cGerontology and Geriatrics Education,\u201d and the \u201cJournal of Interprofessional Care.\u201d<\/p>\n

He has been the lead on projects that have generated $17 million in grants, including support from the National Institutes of Health, Bureau of Health Professions, Administration on Aging, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Norwegian Centre for International Cooperation in Education and the Rhode Island Foundation.<\/p>\n

Clark has also specialized in narrative gerontology, which focuses on a patient\u2019s entire life \u2014 not just his or her health \u2014 and health care policy and ethics. Like any educator, however, teaching and mentoring are among his top priorities, and he teaches multiple courses at the undergraduate and graduate level. Much of his instruction focuses on interprofessional education.<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone comes to a project with a different lens. We\u2019re educating students to be a team of different lenses,\u201d Clark said. \u201cThe only way to provide care is to communicate and share with each other.\u201d<\/p>\n

URI\u2019s Academic Health Collaborative, which includes the College of Health Sciences of which gerontology is a part, aims to promote just that type of collaborative care to impact the overall health system and promote better health care for patients of all ages.<\/p>\n

\u201cHealth care education and health care systems haven\u2019t always been focused on collaboration,\u201d Clark said. \u201cThe Academic Health Collaborative is a great example of where the university has stepped up to try and restructure that health care education. It provides a framework to do more collaborative teaching and more collaborative research, specifically in health care.\u201d<\/p>\n

Clark doesn\u2019t just talk about collaborative mentorship, he embraces it, according to College of Health Sciences Assistant Professors Skye Leedahl and Melanie Brasher, who nominated him for the award.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe not only mentors many individuals personally, but he also creates networks of teams designed to support one another,\u201d the pair wrote in their nomination letter, noting Clark routinely mentors not just students but colleagues, as well. \u201cDr. Clark is the epitome of excellence in mentorship. His vision of mentorship and leadership is incredibly systemic and focused, and he works tirelessly to mentor and support individuals and groups across the university and the state of Rhode Island to advocate for gerontology and geriatric education.\u201d<\/p>\n

URI College of Health Sciences Dean Gary Ligouri echoed their sentiments.<\/p>\n

\u201cReceiving the Friedsam Mentorship Award is a tremendous honor for Dr. Clark, and builds upon his legacy as a national leader in the areas of mentorship, team building and gerontology,\u201d Dean Ligouri said.<\/p>\n

Clark will receive his award in March at the association\u2019s national conference in Atlanta, where he will make a presentation on mentorship in gerontology. The award is named for Hiram Friedsam, who was co-founder and director of the Center for Studies in Aging and dean of the School of Community Service at the University of North Texas. He was and \u201coutstanding teacher, researcher, colleague and mentor to students, faculty and administrators, and a past-president of AGHE,\u201d the association\u2019s website reads. \u201cThe purpose of this award is to recognize those who emulate Dr. Friedsam’s excellence in mentorship.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Colleges of Health Sciences, Nursing and Pharmacy, as well as the Institute for Integrated Health and Innovation, form the core of URI\u2019s Academic Health Collaborative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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